Category: Poetry

Poetry: Sarah Suzor

If you were smart you’d have experienced at least five times where the saying “Too good to be true” was applicable. You’d know when the truth is not really the best option. You’d keep your options open. You’d open doors…

Poetry: Tyrone Williams

The Vennus Virus In an envelope slipped into the side pocket— flanked by the legal pad-handler of a frontispiece leather-bound file folder at the back of a cabinet framed by the furniture of folding “work” into “area” in a house…

Poetry: 2011 Open Book Prize Finalists

This week we also feature new work from the five finalists for the 2011 Omnidawn Open Book Contest: Anne Cecelia Holmes — All the Good in the World Starts Now Jill Darling — A Geography of Syntax Matt Reeck —…

Poetry: Brett Fletcher Lauer

The Gentle Sleep Empty I slept, remembering how others feared sleep, feared the likeness between a fading consciousness and permanent escape drifting out past smoke, past particles of last-call conversations. It’s uneasy this waking life, but drugs work quickly

Poetry: Amish Trivedi

Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed Having nowhere to go is the best place to be: I don’t care if crosswalk signals never let me pass or if rivers continue to flood. After all terrors, settled moments have left to…

Poetry: Joshua Corey

Sæglópur Gut of static hush the single voice venturesome and small signal to noise the toe-tap adjustment a Turner reality a Whistler’s frost of decadence filming whipped grays and blacks indicative of sea fog rushing the viewer’s 3D-glasses slack planked…

Poetry: Raina León

To celebrate National Poetry Month, this week’s installation of OmniVerse will be a poetry double feature. Click the link below to see new work by Raina León.